A recent change to the state health plan will allow coverage of sex change transition surgery. While some advocates of gay and transgender rights welcome the move, incoming State Treasurer Dale Folwell isn’t happy about the cost.

The federal legislation is known as a “stopgap” budget measure, designed to avoid a government shutdown and give President-elect Donald Trump enough time to negotiate with Republicans in control of both the U.S. House and Senate. North Carolina stands to see nearly $300 million through the continuing resolution budget legislation in immediate Hurricane Matthew disaster recovery assistance.

VIDEO: Governor-elect Roy Cooper thanks supporters during a victory rally Tuesday evening, Dec. 6, 2016 at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh, N.C. Cooper, a Democrat and the state’s attorney general, had a lead of 10,293 votes over Gov. Pat McCrory in nearly final election tallies on the State Board of Elections website Monday evening.

North Carolina’s outgoing Republican Gov. Pat McCrory arrived Wednesday morning at Trump Tower in New York City to meet with President-elect Donald Trump. McCrory recently conceded his loss in a tough, unsuccessful bid for a second term and now could be under consideration for a position in Trump’s administration.

Civitas Institute in Raleigh abandoned its request on Monday to delay a final count of ballots from the November elections, shortly after Gov. Pat McCrory conceded the gubernatorial race to Roy Cooper.

The recount of about 94,000 ballots in Durham County should be finished well before the 7 p.m. Monday deadline, officials said Sunday as the tabulations were in full swing. The Durham County Board of Elections hired more than 50 locals and brought in extra vote-counting machines to help speed the recount, which began Saturday afternoon after emergency meetings held by both the county board and the state board of elections that tackled controversial election issues around the state.

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VIDEO: Governor-elect Roy Cooper thanks supporters during a victory rally Tuesday evening, Dec. 6, 2016 at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh, N.C. Cooper, a Democrat and the state’s attorney general, had a lead of 10,293 votes over Gov. Pat McCrory in nearly final election tallies on the State Board of Elections website Monday evening.